Question

I’ve followed examples from other posting to achieve this but am getting the following error:

The objects “otherDB.dbo.someTable” and “someDB.dbo.someTable” in the FROM clause have the same exposed names. Use correlation names to distinguish them.

Here’s the SQL Statement

UPDATE [someDB].[dbo].[someTable]
SET [someDB].[dbo].[someTable].[Name] = [otherDB].[dbo].[someTable].[Name]
FROM [someDB].[dbo].[someTable]
INNER JOIN [otherDB].[dbo].[someTable]
   ON [someDB].[dbo].[someTable].[ID] = [otherDB].[dbo].[someTable].[ID]

As you can see, I simple want to update the [Name] in [someBD].[someTable] from [otherDB].[someTable]

From what I can see in other similar queries, this should work but I wonder if I need to do something different because it’s coming from a different database?

Any pointers/help much appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you tried using an alias?

UPDATE db1
SET db1.[Name] = db2.[Name]
FROM [someDB].[dbo].[someTable] db1
INNER JOIN [otherDB].[dbo].[someTable] db2
   ON db1.[ID] = db2.[ID]